Browsing Posts published on November 26, 2010

As I sat down to type some Thanksgiving thoughts, I found myself returning to what I wrote a couple of years ago, back when this blog [Animal Blawg] was first beginning. I’m still saddened and bewildered by the idea of pardoning turkeys. And, since not many people read the blog back then, I offer those now two-year old thoughts back up again for your consideration.

Obama 'pardoning' a turkeyâ€”courtesy Animal Blawg.

Much has been said about the ritual of Thanksgiving and its accompanying slaughter of hundreds of millions of defenseless birds, most of whom lived short lives of unrelenting and abject misery. I have little to add to what’s already out there except my own indignation and sorrow. But I do have something to say about the Thanksgiving ritual, particularly the embedded legal contradiction in the practice (discussed by Luis below) of pardoning turkeys. continue reading…

"Service Animal" Scammers (New Yorker): An increasing number of your neighbors have been keeping company with their pets in human-only establishments simply by claiming that the creatures are their licensed companion animals and are necessary to their mental well-being.